The Twin Cities Wellness Collective Tm Podcast

Charles Trittin, life guide, joins me to discuss how he joins others to create their story, find meaning amidst a noisy world, and discover the divine in ordinary life.Bio: Charles Trittin (B.A., M.Div.) seeks to better lives and the world.  As a Life Guide he comes alongside and listens to your stories, questions and aspirations.  He draws on his personal history of transcending challenges, 20+ years of family and natural systems training, and 25 years as a progressive pastor.  Working with Charles as a client includes:•Creating your story •Assessing strengths and stressors •Transforming responses •Finding and developing perspectives •Navigating transitions •Separating thinking and feeling •Assisting in decisions •Strengthening relationships, teams and communities •Discovering your myths and metaphors •Promoting healing and wellness •Living authentically •Finding community •Turning your ideals into reality.Charles is particularly adept at discovering the divine in everyday life, whether it be in lyrics to a

Pam Ryan, CEO & Founder, joins me to discuss leadership, her work to help educators, and how it has changed during COVID-19.Pam's Bio:Pam Ryan is the CEO and Founder of better3 Executive Leadership Development and Certified Dare to Lead TM Facilitator with an extensive background in education, learning and leadership development, process improvement, and strategic planning spans both the private and public sectors.Pam has spent 20-plus years in K-12 education prior to starting her own business. She has taught, coached and led. Her most recent endeavor is the development of bettertogether3 , a fully integrative program focused on developing students who are able to maintain healthy relationships, self-regulate their emotional health, and show up with compassion & empathy.Partnering with leaders of all levels and industries, Pam focuses on improvingEmotional Intelligence(EQ), systemic cohesion, conflict resolution, and safe, engaged workplace cultures. She helps people develop the courage building

Mike Grinberg and Gaby Israel Grinberg join me to share their journey to starting Proofpoint Marketing and give us a glimpse into what it looks like to be in business with your spouse.Mike Grinberg Bio: Mike cut his teeth professionally in paid media, SEO and analytics and has agency, in-house and start-up experience, working on e-commerce, B2B and CPG brands. Mike, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, double-majored in business and graphic design and always thought he’d be a designer. After various internships, it was clear he was better suited for a career in digital marketing over design.From a very early point in his career, Mike always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur and strike out on his own. Though he never thought it would be with his wife, and he never imagined it would be as head of an agency. In fact, those were two things he said he did NOT want to do. But life has a funny way of pushing you toward the right path, one way or another.As the fearless leader of Proofpoint Marketing, Mike i

Kate Jackson, Founder of Ensō Wellbeing, joins the podcast to discuss taking ownership of how we feel by improving our relationship with ourselves and others.Kate's Bio:Kate Jackson is the owner of Ensō Wellbeing Coaching in St. Louis Park. Kate is a Certified Enneagram practitioner, a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, and holds a Masters in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching from the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing.  After facing a series of significant life events in a short period of time, including stage 4 cancer and divorce, she became deeply passionate about helping others find resources and tools to feel inspired and confident to empower their wellbeing. Her work focuses on helping clients develop deeper self-awareness in order to allow each client to identify tools and resources unique to their personal motivations and needs. Her skilled listening and thought-provoking questions guide clients to break down long-standing barriers and flo

Tamara Torres joins me to discuss aligning our priorities with our values.Tamara's Bio: Tamara’s passion is helping busy professionals align their values with their schedules to have the time and energy for what matters most. To this end, she founded Optima Results Coaching and launched the Productivity with Heart series. Her background in psychology and integrative medicine, along with thousands of coaching interactions, has honed her ability to help her clients achieve results.  Her personal values include: Family, Health, Service, Autonomy, and Growth.When not coaching, Tamara loves spending time outdoors, playing cards with her family, and stand-up comedy. After multiple injuries from running and martial arts, Tamara has learned to adjust her expectations and embrace being the youngest in her water aerobics class. Links From The Episode:Optima Results Coaching WebsiteTamara's LinkedIn ProfileOptima Results Coaching on Facebook

Suzi Hunn, founder of Teach Your Thing, joins me on the show to discuss how businesses can empower people by teaching what they know.Suzi's Bio:Suzi Hunn founded Teach Your Thing to help small businesses empower people by teaching what they know. If you’re a content creator who’s ready to build new containers for your message, you may need her in your life. And if you’re a purpose-driven leader who’s making an impact with your ideas, she may need you in hers. Suzi lives by the rallying cry, “You have medicine that you must own.” Her specialty is helping clients create the right content for meeting their beloved audiences where they are: online courses, how-to videos, workbooks, white papers, and more.She loved her 15 years as a curriculum writer and teacher trainer at the Minnesota Historical Society. After discovering the Good Life Project podcast, she fell in love with entrepreneurship. During her career she has developed engaging learning experiences for founders, authors, corporate franchisees, inter

Michael Helmke, The Digital Concierge, joins me to discuss marketing and acquiring new clients in a COVID-19 business landscape.Michael's Bio: After decades writing software and managing development teams, it was time for a change and Michael entered the wild world of marketing.  Turns out, marketing is great fun.  Especially marketing copywriting where you have permission to break language rules, tell stories, and turn words into money like magic.This biggest challenge facing business owners, Michael observes, is appearing as genuine online as they do when they are successfully getting clients "the old fashioned way".Solving this challenge, Michael brings to bear years of experience with business strategy, digital expertise, and a strong drive to keep things as simple as possible.Michael's current focus is helping business owners with existing success getting clients through "normal" means and helping them successfully reach more clients online.   He also writes a thrice weekly

Tim McDonald joins us to discuss using fear to our advantage, creating community, and embracing opportunities during uncertain times.Tim's Bio: Tim McDonald is a speaker and author who guides individuals and organizations on their journey to becoming conscious leaders. He helps them understand and internalize their role as community builders to deliver their product and/or service through trusted relationships that ignite movements with a customer focus. His experience working with organizations like No Kid Hungry, Cinnabon, Carvel Ice Cream among others, included leading the overall marketing vision, strategy and execution of social media campaigns, including blogger programs and influencer relationships.Working directly on the No Kid Hungry campaign, GivingTuesday fundraising increased from $56,000 to over $249,000 in just 3 years, which translated into 2.49MM meals for kids in the US. Prior to that, Tim was the Director of Community for The Huffington Post, where he set strategy and oversaw a team of

Charlie Engle and Sean Nielsen join me to discuss their company, ShareBoost Marketing, and how they are revolutionizing fundraising in youth sports while fostering community interaction.ShareBoost Marketing is the mobile app developer and subsidiary of the Minneapolis/NYC-based Direct-to-Consumer & eCommerce startup partner, The People Centric. The People Centric is a direct to consumer & ecommerce incubator & accelerator with a family of brands designed to promote active & healthy lifestyles. Their brands produce innovative physical products paired with forward thinking digital experiencesCharlie's Bio: Charlie Engle is a global ultra-­‐endurance athlete and the founder of the 5.8 Global Adventure Series, one of the most ambitious expeditions in modern history, trekking from the lowest to the highest points on all seven continents. He is also one of the most accomplished ultramarathon runners in the world, having placed in hundreds of races in dozens of countries.His incredible athletic

KK Myers and Maree Hampton, founders of LiveMore ScreenLess, join me to discuss how to use technology so that it doesn't detract from our well-being. Bio: Maree Hampton and Katherine Myers are the co-founders of LiveMore ScreenLess. Their mission is to foster Digital Wellbeing for and with families, schools, and communities. They work at the intersection of education and public health and recognize the importance of a whole community approach to promote balanced use of screens while supporting the health and wellbeing of young people. They are proud to be an organization that amplifies youth voice as foundational to their mission. LiveMore is Research-Based, Data-Driven, and Youth-Inspired.Links from the episode: The Twin Cities Wellness Collective™ WebsiteLiveMore ScreenLess WebsiteLiveMore ScreenLess on FacebookMinnesota Senate Resolution

Amy Novotny joins me to discuss how she helps free others from pain.Amy's Bio: Dr. Amy Novotny founded the PABR Institute™ with the mission to provide pain, stress and anxiety relief to those who seek a naturalistic form of treatment when other treatment methods have fallen short. Her unique approach comes from her experience treating in a variety of settings and with a wide range of patient populations over the past 10 years. Her background in orthopedics, sports, geriatrics, balance disorders, nerve injuries, and most recently, chronic pain; and influences from coursework at the Postural Restoration Institute gave her the foundation to develop this treatment method to address a wide variety of painful and restrictive conditions.   She customizes all treatment plans to the individual to help them achieve their goals, whether it is to pick up a child, get through a work day pain free or play a sport. She co-authored a #1 Best-Selling book Don’t Quit: Stories of Persistence, Courage and Faith, which share

Margaret Bjork joins me on the show to discuss how companies can operationalize goodness. Margaret's Bio: Margaret has worked to power good through technology for over 15 years. Helping corporations and nonprofits create, scale and communicate the impact they are having.  Margaret works as a Director of Goodness Solutions for Benevity, which is a B-Corp, that help companies Power Their Company’s Purpose So They Can See More Success.  Benevity has created a resource hub for COVID response for companies trying to understand how they can help, and where to start.  Starting as a practitioner in the nonprofit community, and then working for companies who provided the technology to nonprofits and corporations use to run their fundraising, employee engagement, HR, digital marketing. Margaret helps her clients find ways to operationalize goodness so that it is easy and scalable to combine Profit and Purpose and create engaging programs for their employees, consumers and communities.Throughout her career she has

Emma Laurence joins me to discuss how she provides support, tools, and structure to help others live their best life.Emma's Bio: Emma Laurence has spent years in education, the performing arts, and spiritual service. She's an International Coach Foundation (ICF) certified life coach and the founder of Life Is Coaching You, her singular approach to serving those in challenging life transitions.  As an educator and international speaker, Emma's experience included everything from pre-school music, to high school theater, to corporate business writing and speaking for adults. As an award-winning actress, she studied the complex nature of the human psyche and learned to be fully present with others. Though Emma began as a shy singer/songwriter, she grew into a powerful musical performer, emerging from the shadows to share her expressive voice. And as a spiritual aide, Emma developed a rare ability to listen so others can hear their own truth.  She trained for years in providing a compassionate, sha

Jenny Landon joins me to discuss her mission to help others grow from the most difficult times in their lives.Jenny's Bio: Jenny Landon uses the lessons she’s learned from the most difficult times of her life to create an experience for her audience that goes well beyond simply sharing a story. She connects with her audience through her own transparency and sense of vulnerability to help them develop a better understanding for mental health and how to support it. Jenny’s need for understanding mental health began in 1999 after she lost her father to suicide. Determined to understand his death, she focused the remainder of her undergraduate studies on depression and how to heal after experiencing such a loss.Jenny graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in psychology and went on to be a trained crisis counselor and public educator on suicide prevention. Still, she credits her life experiences as being the best teacher in helping her better understand mental health. In addition to losin

Today, we have a unique edition of the podcast. Joel and Amy Swanson join me to tell their powerful and uplifting adoption story. Professionally, Joel is a Certified EOS and Traction Implementer and Amy creates and directs cross-cultural immersion programs for high school students.Links for Further Exploration:Swanson Adoption Journey BlogJoel's Business: Mile One

Dr. Read Sulik joins me to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can support one another through this difficult moment in time.Dr. Read Sulik is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Praestan Health, a technology-based behavioral health company, and the creator of Portages™, a Digital Health program designed to empower improved mental health and wellbeing, build resiliency and vitality, and overcome stress, anxiety and depression He is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Adult Psychiatrist and Pediatrician, who has for over 20 years passionately pursued the vision, design, development and delivery of innovations in technology, education and care delivery needed to improve mental health and wellbeing for individuals, families and communities. He is a popular, sought after speaker on mental health and wellbeing. At Praestan Health, he continues to forge new paths needed to bring better mental health and wellbeing solutions and services to individuals, organizations and communities. Portages is a whole-

Jennifer Zick, CEO and Founder of Authentic Brand, joins me to share her journey to starting Authentic Brand, how to eliminate random acts of marketing, and prioritize our best ideas.Jennifer's Bio: Jennifer Zick is the CEO and Founder of Authentic Brand, a management consulting and marketing leadership firm, specializing in Fractional CMO services for growing businesses. For over 20 years, Jennifer has built brands and businesses locally and globally, as a sales and marketing executive for companies including Magnet360, PwC, and Corporate Visions. She is the past-president of the Business Marketing Association of Minnesota (now part of ANA), an award-winning business leader, and the founder and organizer of a grassroots community service movement called Two Or More.Links from the episode:Authentic Brand WebsiteJennifer's LinkedIn

Kristine Keykal, Co-Founder and CEO of AdvantageHealth Corporation, joins me to discuss how company's can bolster the well-being of their employees.Kristine's Bio: Kristine has spent the last 20+ years developing a variety of health promotion initiatives in order to improve the health and well-being of populations. This has included consulting with a wide variety of  employer groups including businesses, community organizations, educational clients and the government sector to develop strategic, results-oriented wellness programs. She co-founded AdvantageHealth Corporation in 2001 as a means to assist organizations with creating a healthier and more productive workforce. Clients appreciate her thoughtful and tactical mentality to worksite wellness, plus her “not every size fits all” approach.  Her goal is to develop a sustainable program that best fits each client’s needs, interests and health risks and that shows a positive value on their investment.  Kristine holds a Master’s Degree in Public Heal

Colt Thompson joins me to discuss how ARPwave can accelerate recovery and eliminate pain.Colt's Bio: ARP is an acronym for Accelerated Recovery Performance and these 3 words resonate well with what ARPwave is all about…Accelerating Recovery times from injury and surgery and helping people perform/move freely without pain. Colt Thompson has been involved with ARPwave since 2004 and is currently the Vice President and General Manager at ARPwave. His passion for performance and healing started at a young age, engrained and developed by his father Denis Thompson CEO and Founder of ARPwave. Over the last 16 years Colt and Denis have developed protocols and business models that have successfully treated 500,000+ patients including thousands of professional athletes. To find a local provider, get more information or to see if ARPwave Therapy will work for you, please visit our website www.ARPwave.com. 

Alex Stalberger and Lilly Zaborowski, founders of Well Connected Twin Cities, join me to discuss they work to connect the community with talented wellness practitioners.Well Connected Twin Cities Introduction: Well Connected Twin Cities makes it easy to explore and connect with local health and wellness services. Lilly and Alex both had a vision of connecting our communities through relatable, informative content and events. Lilly brings over 10 years of marketing and business strategy experience from the corporate world, working for companies like Gap and Target to deliver great products to consumers.  With a strong interest in holistic health, she loves helping people find solutions that fit their lifestyle and help them feel better.Alex emboldens our local professionals to think bigger, and work together toward a common goal. With her 6+ year's experience as a mentor and holistic health coach for some of our cities’ most vulnerable communities, she loves listening to each person’s story and collaborat